The march can make a difference. The government and the opposition are keeping a very close and wary eye on public opinion. The white paper opened with a huge lie - the claim that 65 million were united behind Brexit. That alone would make me march (though I'm marching for all the other reasons I've already mentioned on the thread). Politicians cannot simply be allowed to continue to lie and for the lies to remain uncontested.
As it happens I love Europe. My job involves working with wonderful European colleagues, using foreign languages, and sending people abroad. My children were born abroad (thank God - because they at least can keep their EU passports) and I met my husband while living abroad. But I can understand why not everyone feels the way I do. I can see areas where the EU needs to improve. I certainly don't think all leavers are racist or stupid - I know many lovely leavers. And I think loads of remainers didn't/ don't know that much about how the EU works, and that's fair enough - loads of us didn't need to think about it too much until recently. But that's part of the reason why this should never, ever have been decided in a public referendum conducted in this way.
But what I absolutely cannot get my head round - and if anyone can help me I'd be genuinely grateful - is the trust that people are willing to place in the government to see us through this. We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world and just look at the increasing numbers of people using food banks. All of those millionaire MPs accepted their 11% payrise, while cutting benefits to the most vulnerable in society. 'I am Daniel Blake' told the story of hundreds of people. Hundreds of people died, while the government told them that they were fit to work. thank you Iain Duncan-Smith. Our schools are woefully underfunded, and Michael Gove brought about a massive teacher shortage. The NHS is on its knees and Jeremy Hunt, author of a book praising the privatision of medicine, has just returned from the USA where he's 'looking at different healthcare models.' Theresa May's department could have reduced EU immigration massively, had it been inclined to, but failed to, just as it failed to reduce non-EU immigration. Jacob Rees-Mogg has been gleefully rubbing his hands at the prospect of doing away with EU rules and regulations - like the ones that protect our working conditions, our safety in cars, our rights to parental leave, the ones that mean that we know that toys and carseats are safe for our children etc. This is what life has been like under their government and people really trust them to deliver a Brexit that will improve life for people like you and me, for ordinary, working people, who can't afford private schools for their children and can't afford private healthcare ?? Andrea Leadsom thinks we'll save ourselves by selling jam and tea. And Boris bloody Johnson is our Foreign Secretary for Christ's sake. If I were the most rabid Eurosceptic alive, I'd never get behind a Brexit run by this lot. It's the equivalent of desperately needing to find childcare and thinking that King Herod's CV doesn't look too bad, all things considered.